frome
/ˈfɹuːm/
frome is the obsolete spelling of from.
Meaning of from
Preposition
from
- Used to indicate source or provenance.
- Paul is from New Zealand.
- Synonyms:
- out of
- Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
- This manuscript is from the 1980s.
- Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
- He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
- Indicating a starting point in time.
- The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.
- Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
- Rate your pain from 1 to 10.
- Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
- You can study anything from math to literature.
Proper noun capitalized: Frome
Frome
- A town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST7848).
- A river in Dorset, England, that serves Dorchester.
- A river that flows through Gloucestershire, to meet the Avon in the centre of Bristol.
- A river in the Stroud area of Gloucestershire, that joins the Severn.
- A minor river in Herefordshire, England, which joins the River Lugg.
Words formed from frome
Words that rhyme with frome
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about frome
- What does frome mean?
- Frome means a town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST7848).
- What is frome the obsolete spelling of?
- Frome is the obsolete spelling of from.
- What part of speech is frome?
- Frome is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce frome?
- Frome is pronounced /ˈfɹuːm/ (UK).
Words near frome in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: frome (page history and authors); Frome (page history and authors); from (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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